Hornsby sits at the top of the Upper North Shore where the bush meets the suburbs, and its housing is a real mix. There are large detached family homes on leafy, often sloping blocks, plenty of solid brick builds from the 60s through to the 90s, alongside a growing band of apartments around the station and town centre. The free-standing homes usually have decent-sized kitchens that have dated, frequently closed off from the living and meals areas, where the job is modernising and opening up for a busy family. The apartments tend to have compact developer kitchens that need a smarter layout and quality finishes within a fixed footprint. We are a family-run joinery based in Liverpool servicing Sydney-wide, and Hornsby is part of our regular Upper North Shore run across 12 years in the trade. What North Shore families value is that we run one team across cabinetry, tiling, plumbing, electrical and painting, so the project does not become you chasing five separate contractors. We measure, then hand you a fixed-price quote with no provisional sums, so the number is real before anything starts. As a licensed NSW contractor the plumbing and electrical are signed off properly, and because we buy appliances at trade cost, more of the budget goes into stone benchtops, soft-close cabinetry and the finishes you use every day. Most Hornsby kitchens are on site for around three weeks: demolition, services, stone, joinery, tiling, painting and a clean handover.
We come to your Hornsby home or apartment, measure up and check the plumbing and power behind the cabinets. You get one fixed price covering every trade with no provisional sums. In a strata building we also confirm lift access and work hours before locking anything in.
We settle the layout, island, door finishes, benchtop stone, handles and appliances together, then order at trade cost. Once you sign off the design is locked, so the team builds to an exact spec and you are not making decisions under pressure mid-job.
Cabinetry is built while we book the trades in order. One in-house team means the plumber, electrician, tiler and painter are all ours and coordinated by us. You get a firm start date and a realistic finish, usually around three weeks on the tools.
We strip the old kitchen, run new services, fit cabinetry and stone, tile the splashback, paint and connect appliances. We clean up properly, walk you through how everything works and hand over your warranty paperwork and a finished kitchen.
Most Hornsby kitchens run from $20,000 to $60,000, with the bulk of our family-home jobs in the $25,000 to $45,000 mid-range. The price depends on size, your stone choice, laminate versus two-pac doors, and how much the layout changes. A like-for-like update is cheaper than knocking out a wall to open the kitchen onto the living area, which is a popular move in the older brick homes up here. We quote one fixed price with no provisional sums, so there are no surprise costs once we start. Buying appliances at trade cost also helps the budget stretch on a family kitchen with a full suite of appliances.
Once the cabinets are manufactured and we start on site, a typical Hornsby kitchen takes around three weeks. We start with demolition, rough in the plumbing and electrical, fit cabinetry, template and install the stone, tile the splashback, paint and finish by connecting appliances. The lead time before we begin depends on cabinet manufacture and how fast you settle your finishes, which is why we lock the design in early. Because we run one in-house team across every trade, we are not waiting on outside subcontractors, so the build stays on schedule rather than stalling between trades.
Yes, it is one of the most common jobs we do up here. Many of the brick family homes around Hornsby and the surrounding Upper North Shore streets have the kitchen boxed off from the dining and living areas, and opening that up changes how the whole home lives, especially in homes that take in the leafy outlook. Before we quote we check whether the wall is load-bearing and what services run through it, then build any beam, plumbing or electrical relocation into the fixed price. As a licensed NSW contractor we handle the structural and trade side properly so it is done safely and signed off.
We are a family-run business and you deal with the same people from quote to handover. Twelve years in, we are comfortable across Hornsby's range, from large detached family homes on sloping blocks to compact strata apartments near the station. One team handles cabinetry, tiling, plumbing, electrical and painting, so you are not chasing five contractors or copping the blame game when trades need coordinating. You get a fixed-price quote with no provisional sums, appliances at trade cost, a roughly three-week build and a licensed NSW contractor backing the work. We are Liverpool-based but service Sydney-wide, and the Upper North Shore is a regular run for us.
InsideOut Joinery & Renos is a family-run custom joinery and renovation business based in Liverpool, Sydney NSW 2170, serving homeowners Sydney-wide. Call 02 5000 0402 or email info@insideoutjoinery.au. One team covers every trade, with a typical 3-week turnaround, trade-cost appliances and 12 years of experience. Licensed contractor — licence 383725C, ABN 62 912 909 739.